I love my Jornada 680, but I prefer the way the CF card is stored in my 360LX or in my 620LX. I swear that the hatch-door of the 680 is a pain in the... It opens by itself with no apparent reason, and there's no easy fix unless you 3D print a bottom case or a piece of plastic that keep that little door from opening.
IDK in what was this person thinking when he praised this mechanism...
HP Jornada 680 review
But, if it's a question of imagination, my perfect palmtop/handheld won't be a mix of models, but an accessory.
Let me explain myself.
Smartphones are among us for more than 30 long years now
(first one was IBM's SIMON
), and have evolved and get more accessible for the public year by year. If we talk about formats and sizes, there are several options to choose, among them the 7 inch versions which, in most of the cases, are cheaper with the lack of very few capabilities.
The perfect palmtop/handheld PC will be a device that works for smartphones, and that we have already seen for tablets.
The case with keyboard incorporated.
Imagine your 7 inch smartphone inserted in a clamshell format case with the keyboard of the HP Jornada 6xx or 7xx. You'll have plenty of apps, from productivity ones to games, entertainment... Also you'll get storage sizes of GB without the need of expansions, even if you could add micro SDs to that devices if you want to add a lot of music, movies, or games. Plus, connectivity will not depend of clunky-chunky PCMCIA cards.
And you could even use a Bluetooth mouse!!
Here's one possible approach...
Almost perfect...
Awww... I want be rich...
Of course, those are already existant devices, and very expensive ones, BTW. BUT what I'm talking about is the possibility of buying a clamshell case on which you could attach your regular smartphone, something like this case for tablets, that cost almost none for what they offer...
I've transformed an old tablet into a laptop with one of those for just 10€.
Of course, the keyboard should be like the one of the Psion or the Jornada. And for the OS... Well, I've seen people installing win10 on a smartphone and on a tablet, so... I think that your skills are the limit.
Edited by ABBADON 2024-03-12 9:08 AM
